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We often see aliens crashing on Earth in sci-fi, but what would it actually be

like to be stranded on some alien and hostile planets?

I'm going to be. So welcome back to another sci-fi Sunday here on SFIA, where we relax a bit of our scientific rigor from our normal Thursday episodes to explore concepts from science fiction

and see how realistic they are, or what the other implications of such situations are.

Today's topic was inspired by several recent episodes on damaged spaceships and crash saucers,

or being an alien refugee, and made me ask what I'd have done in that fictional aliens case and

what a human should do if they crash landed on or were exiled to some alien planet.

It was also partially inspired by our look at alien impostors some months back, which is actually

the episode coming out next as I write this, because I do the videos a couple months after

the scripts, and I found myself asking how I would have, because I do the videos a couple months after the scripts,

and I found myself asking how I would have acted if I was that shape-changing entity we

see from the film The Thing, or the Xenomores from aliens, or the predator from that franchise.

The big question is always how the heck the alien can even survive on the planet, different

air, different food, no knowledge

of the environment, all messed up from being on a world that differs in so many ways, from

gravity, lighting and pressure to all the plants around it, then it probably feels like it was

a hallucination or a fever dream, which it might actually be too, an accident or crash can

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